Science and Ugliness 



bludgeon it with the foul language of the 

 stews he is crowned as a realist and man of 

 force, no namby-pamby searcher after beauty, 

 but one who knows the truth and is not 

 afraid of it like a sewer cleaner. 



The discarded and contemned classic writer 

 from Shakespeare to Tennyson sublimated 

 the passions and made love a spiritual vision 

 conferring on those to whom it was vouch- 

 safed a station at the door of Glory 

 where they could stand together transfigured 

 by the light of Heaven within " Imparadised 

 in one another's arms " ; but these later 

 geniuses, these men of fearless truth and 

 intrepid realism, go to ! they will tell us, the 

 unblemished verity about love, and treat it, 

 in the vivid light of Science, as what it is 

 an arrangement for procreation, and let there 

 be no more nonsense talked about it ! 



How trite and tiresome to write about 

 great actions, noble scenes, uplifting aspira- 

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